Patreon Q&A: April 2024
Hey everyone! This month's Q&A might be the longest yet, and I nearly forgot to record it, haha. I hope the answers are interesting.
Edit:
Thank you to everyone who went to the effort of getting through to me in the comments! This Q&A has info that's now outdated. The cultural outfits will specify what they are with the proper cultural names. It won't be something players can imagine about.
Comments (9)
I admire how incredibly patient you are with the comments being rude to you fr
I'm just glad people talk to me when I'm not getting something instead of deciding the game isn't worth it and moving on.
Honestly, I think including the names of the cultural items should be included... like, at least. it feels disingenuous to find something from a specific culture and then "leaving it up to interpretation." The problem with interpretation is people will in turn misrepresent or misinterpret it - It's not excluding people to name it. Most places enjoy people respecting their culture and dress as long as it's done properly. To take something and not even name it while also making it a major thing you can do in the moment is frustrating :/
I really think hiring a sensitivity reader would be helpful, just for future problems to be diverted.
Hi, so I wanted to say I'm not the original poster who asked the cultural outfit question but I do wanted to say that answer comes off as extremely lazy and ignorant. All cultural outfits are one thing even though they might "look similiar" like a karabella and a jalisco but they belong to Haitian and Mexican cultures respectively. It might be pointless to you but that's important to players of color. Also leaving up what they are called to the player is also objectively not a good move, it could cause another debacle where someone tries to say a cultural outfit isn't from the actual country of origin. For example, someone could claim that a hanbok is Japanese or a charro suit is from Argentina or say it's vaguely from South America which would be ignorant and racist of them to say but it would also be a shitty situation to put your players in to be frank. Also, this made me actually curious as to what the actual code is for the cultural clothing and to put it bluntly, you labeled every cultural piece by their country along with the names, save for the ankara dress and top which you have listed as just african (which is just frankly anti-black to lump a specific country's cultural attire under a fucking continent but that's another conversation.) So really there isn't a actual excuse for you, which is just insulting to me. Learning the names of these important garbs are important, their not interchangable at all and whether you like it or not you need to accurately represent those garbs or don't include them and the cultural aspect in the game if you are so gung-ho about half assing this. Frankly, this comes off as you trying to just profit off of diversity and inclusivity without actually putting the leg work into it and I'm honestly disgusted and enraged by your answer and decision on this going forward. Normally this would be a dm but I can't let anyone else think that neglecting to add such an important feature is ok to do.
Insinuating they're trying to profit off diversity and inclusivity is wild, given the base game is, y'know, FREE. Not to mention the series has some of the best representation I've ever seen, but go off I guess. I'm pretty sure it's just because it'd be impossible to draw and code a thousand and one different cultural garbs, have them all labelled and noted, and also make sure characters of other backgrounds couldn't wear them inappropriately.It's not half-assed in any way, it's just so people can feel even more represented if they want to. It's the neck part of a garb, so I'm not sure why you're ascribing that it must be this or that to it. Many neck parts of cultural wear share similar features and could be interchanged. Not the rest sure, but the neck? Definitely.
Thanks for the answers as usual! It's always so interesting to read these!
yay!!! thanks kab^^
Nice! This was a great Q&A, really engaging even if some of it was covering previously discussed subjects for newer members. These might be my favorite posts to see pop up in my notifications- thanks for doing them!